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the Funeral of 
Henry George 




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ADDRESSES 

AT THE FUNERAL OF 

HENRY George 



SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3^ J897 
At the Grand Central Palace, New York City 



Compiled by 

EDMUND YARDLEY 

With an Introduction by 

HENRY GEORGE, JR. 




THE PUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 

First National Bank Building 
CHICAGO 



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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

DEC 9 1905 

> Gooyrieht Entry 

CLASS CC XXc. No. 
COPY B, 



Copyright, J905, by 
THE PUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 




N the morn- 
ing after the 
funeral the 
writer pro- 
cured copies 
of all the 
daily papers, hoping to find 
in them such reports of the 
burning words to which he 
had listened the day before^ 
delivered over the body of a 
fallen leader, as would enable 
him to bring once more before 
his mind the impressive occa- 
sion. How disappointed he 
was at the inadequate out- 
lines there given it is unnec- 
essary to state to anyone who 
has tried a similar experi- 
ment. Fearing then that 



these orations would be irre- 
vocably lost, he set to work 
with the aid of his memory 
and such help as these 
sketches gave him, to recon- 
struct what was said. Such 
is the origin of this collection. 
After being written out, the 
addresses were submitted to 
the respective speakers, and 
were corrected and approved 
by them, except in the case 
of Father McGIynn, from 
whom no reply was received* 
While this is to be regretted, 
it may be inferred, I think, 
since the changes made by 
the others were slight, that 
he considered the report sub- 
stantially correct. g^ y. 



CONTENTS 



Page 

Introduction ---------- 7 

Address of the Rev^ Lyman Abbott, D, D. - 23 
Address of Du Gustav Gottheil - - - - 30 
Address of the Rev. Edward McGIynn, D. D. 34 
Address of John Sherwin Crosby - - - - 45 



INTRODUCTION. 

On Sunday, October 31, 1897, police in out- 
lying streets had to restrain the throng de- 
siring to enter the Grand Central Palace, on 
Lexington avenue, between Forty-fifth and 
Forty-sixth streets. From an early hour in 
the morning two continuous columns of peo- 
ple moved through the main entrance, up 
the wide staircase, into the great hall of the 
building, and slowly passed a bier. The bier 
was simple, low and black draped. It stood 
at the head of a wide, central aisle, in front 
of a great platform hung with folds of black 
and ornamented with greens. 

In front of the foliage and looking down 
upon the bier was a bronze bust of the dead 
man. It had been made by his second son and 
finished only a few months before. On one 
occasion during the work on that bust the 
father had remarked to his two sons: "When 
I am dead, you boys will have this bust to 

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carry in my funeral procession, as was the cus- 
tom with the Romans.'* And so the words 
had come to pass, for, without knowledge of 
this incident, some one had gone to the home 
at Fort Hamilton, brought the bust and set 
it up over the casket. 

Why did Henry George speak of a funeral 
procession? Why did he suggest a matter 
so out of keeping with his accustomed retire- 
ment and modesty? Why should he think 
there would be any demonstration at his fu- 
neral? The reason was the same as that 
which caused him years earlier suddenly to 
halt in the middle of Broadway while in the 
act of crossing the street with one of his sons 
and, with entire irrelevancy to the topic about 
which they had last talked, exclaim: "Yes, I 
could die now." When his son asked him 
what his words meant, he roused as from a 
reverie, and walking to the sidewalk, 
answered: "I was thinking that I could die 
now and the work would go on. It no longer 
depends upon one man. It is no longer a 

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*Henry George' movement — a one-man move- 
ment. It is the movement of many men in 
many lands. I can help it while I live ; but my 
death could not stop it. The Great Revolution 
has begun." 

In like spirit he had said to his wife a few 
weeks before his death, as she sat beside him in 
his work room : "The great, the very great ad- 
vancement of our ideas may not show now, 
but it will. And it will show more after my 
death than during my life. Men who are now 
holding back will then acknowledge that I 
have been speaking the truth. Neither of us 
can tell which of us will die first. But I shall 
be greatly disappointed if you precede me, 
for I have set my heart on having you hear 
what men will say of me and our cause when 
I am gone." 

These incidents explain why this uniformly 
modest man referred to a funeral procession 
for himself. He believed, with all his soul 
believed, that he had found the way and the 
only way to rid civilization of its cancer — its 

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extremes of wealth and want, that lead some 
to the madness and destruction of vanity, and 
multitudes into the suffering and brutishness 
of poverty. He believed the remedy lay in 
making all men equal before nature by the 
simple process of letting any who v/ould, hold 
land, but compelling him to pay its entire rental 
value in the form of a tax into the public treas- 
ury. Each paying the full value of all the land 
he held, there would be no object in holding 
land not at once to be used, or in not using 
land to its highest capacity. On the contrary, 
all land, used or unused, being compelled to 
yield to the state its full annual value, the 
man who held valuable land idle would find 
that he had to pay as heavily on it as if the 
land were put to its highest use, since the 
value of the land itself, not its produce, would 
be the thing taxed. The land value tax 
would discourage — would kill — land monop- 
oly. Enormous quantities of valuable land, 
in cities, towns and villages, in agricultural, 
timber, mining and grazing regions, would be 

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thrown open to users. That is, land — good, 
accessible, valuable, land — now held out of use 
in the expectation that increasing population 
will be compelled to pay a large advance for 
it, would become cheaper and easier to get. 

And since all men are land users in some 
form, this would be a common benefit. Land 
being at the base of all production, all produc- 
tion would be wonderfully stimulated; and 
doubly stimulated when, the revenue received 
from ground rents being sufficient to satisfy 
the needs of government, all other taxes could 
be remitted. This would remove a mountain 
of taxation from the shoulders of labor. It 
would concentrate the revenue burden in a 
single tax resting upon land values. It 
would, in effect, give to the producer the full 
measure of that which he produced, while he 
that would not work, neither should he eat. 

There then would be no spectacle of some 
men rioting in superabundance and other men, 
willing and anxious to work, unable to find 
opportunity to work. Then some would not be 

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landlords and others landless. Then all would 
be equal before nature; all would have the 
same right to land. Present titles could re- 
main, but the value would be shared by all. 
Such as possessed land having any advantage 
would pay the equivalent of that advantage in 
the shape of a tax into the common coffer. 

This order of things would bring forth a 
race of free, independent, self-respecting, gen- 
erous, high-spirited men, who would advance 
to new and undreamed of heights of civiliza- 
tion. With greater and greater ease they 
would satisfy the animal wants, and give more 
and more play to the development of the men- 
tal and moral natures. 

This was the great idea that filled the soul 
of Henry George. It was the redemption of 
the world from involuntary poverty and from 
its grim daughters, suffering and sin. He 
had, he believed, pointed the way of salva- 
tion, and he was confident that the world 
would sooner or later come to believe with 

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him. And with this conviction he went to his 
death. 

Twenty-seven years before, Henry George, 
as a young newspaper correspondent, fresh 
from the "open West," had walked the streets 
of New York "sick at heart" at the depths of 
poverty he beheld in this proudest city on the 
continent. Moses had heard a voice from the 
bush calling him to lead the people out of the 
land of bondage. So this unknown young 
newspaper writer from San Francisco sud- 
denly, there in the daylight, as he walked in 
the open street, felt a great spirit fill and thrill 
him, and a cry come within him to lead a new 
exodus — to lead the poor and oppressed out of 
their industrial bondage into a condition of 
peace and plenty. For surely, he reasoned, 
the Almighty, who has so beautifully adapted 
means to ends even to the tiniest atom, has 
not intended civilized men to be degraded to 
a station lower than beasts ! He did not know 
how to reach the condition of peace and plenty, 
nor even where it lay; but he took a solemn 

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vow that he would not rest until he had found 
both. 

Nor did he rest. This great question "tor- 
mented" him and would not let him rest. And 
suddenly the answer came. The answer to 
the riddle of poverty lay in the monopolization 
of nature, in land speculation. Giving some 
men the land and shutting others away from 
it made one class the masters of the others; 
produced the evil contrast of riches and pov- 
erty. Tax away monopoly; tax the specu- 
lators out. Clear away the dogs in the manger. 
Cheapen and open land by taxing it out of the 
hands of the forestallers. Then all who wanted 
work would be able to get it; tramps and 
beggars would be lost and forgotten in the 
past. 

And following the discovery came long years 
of thinking and writing and speaking. At first 
they were years of intense and lonely labor, 
when the hopelessness of reaching and mov- 
ing men's minds almost killed the high pur- 
pose and turned effort to the study of self- 

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ease. For the reception of the first writings 
had little to encourage and cheer ; the audience 
for the first speech was only a "beggarly array 
of empty benches." But by degrees the audi- 
ences increased until multitudes felt the sin- 
cerity of the speaker and the truth of his mes- 
sage. Quietly the writings extended their sway, 
until even in England, the center of civiliza- 
tion, the institutions of privilege were aroused 
to take up the battle gage of the man whom 
one of its spokesmen scornfully styled "The 
Prophet of San Francisco." The movement 
for the resumption of the land for all the 
people by the institution of a single tax falling 
upon land values irrespective of improvements 
had come to be a world-movement, and Henry 
George's writings had won a circulation and 
believers such as no writings of the kind ever 
before had had. 

The realization of this bore in upon him and 
filled him with a great joy that he should be 
given strength to bring hope into men's lives. 
Yet his task v/as not finished. He must lead 

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to the end. Many came about him and urged 
him to be candidate for the Mayoralty of the 
City of New York. To his wife he said : "Will 
you fail to tell me to go into this campaign? 
The people want me; they say they have no 
one else upon whom they can unite. It is 
more than a question of good government. 
If I enter the field it will be a question of 
natural rights, even though as mayor I might 
not directly be able to do a great deal for nat- 
ural rights. New York will become the theater 
of the world and my success will plunge our 
cause into world politics." And the wife had 
answered : "You should do your duty at what- 
ever cost." 

At whatever cost! What did that mean? 
It meant that three of his medical friends and 
a number of his intimates had reminded him 
of his breaking health, the result of years of 
enormous, incessant labors, and had warned 
him against serious results if he entered the 
political struggle. But he brushed the mat- 
ter of his health and personal welfare aside 

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as of small moment. To one of his medical 
friends who ventured to tell him that if he 
persisted the strain might prove fatal, he 
answered: "But I have got to die. How can 
I die better than serving humanity? Besides, 
so dying will do more for the cause than any- 
thing I am likely to be able to do in the rest 
of my life." 

And so, waving back all warnings from 
solicitous friends, he entered the New York 
City political contest, and became the candi- 
date of the spontaneous party of Thomas Jeff- 
erson for the mayoralty. The opening meet- 
ing was in Cooper Union on the night of Oc- 
tober 5. Henry George lay faint and panting 
for breath fifteen minutes before he went to 
the hall. He had the pallor of death when 
he stood up before the dense audience and in 
simple language explained the importance of 
the fight as it appeared to him. And he said 
respecting the nomination: "I would not re- 
fuse it if I died for it." 

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Only those close about realized the bravery 
o£ his words. But few others realized the 
great cost of the campaign. Yet to him there 
was no stay. He had heard the voice from 
the bush. He must lead the people out of the 
land of bondage — must lead them to the last 
footstep, to the last breath. And so leading, 
he died, stricken by apoplexy on the morning 
of October 29, four days before the campaign 
closed — a campaign marked by intense ex- 
citement and feeling. The death stunned 
friend and foe. Then poured in the tribute 
which he had said would come v/hen he was 
dead. To the watching world he had fought 
the greatest of battles and won the supreme 
victory: he had risked and met death to pro- 
claim justice. 

The interment was private, from the home 
at Fort Hamilton, November i, in the lot on 
Ocean Hill in Greenwood. From an early 
hour the day before, Sunday, the body lay in 
state in the Grand Central Palace. "Never 
for statesman or soldier," said one of the news- 
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papers, "was there so remarkable a demon- 
stration of popular feeling. At least one hun- 
dred thousand persons passed before his bier, 
and another hundred thousand were prevented 
from doing so only by the impossibility of get- 
ting near it. Unconsciously they vindicated 
over his dead body the truth of the great idea 
to which his life was devoted, the brother- 
hood of man." 

In the afternoon the doors of the Grand Cen- 
tral Palace were closed. As the choir from 
Plymouth Church opened the public services 
with a simple hymn, a hush fell upon the 
multitude that crowded the great hall to its 
utmost. Then the service of the Episcopal 
church was read by the Rev. R. Heber Newton, 
the boyhood and manhood friend — the friend 
to whom the dead man had written but a few 
days before: "Vote for Low or vote for me, 
as you may judge best. I shall in any event 
be true. What doth it profit a man to gain 
the whole world and lose his own soul?" Next 
the Rev. Lyman Abbott and Rabbi Gottheil in 

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order recounted the peerless courage and the 
ancient wisdom of the man at whose bier they 
stood. And after them arose Dr. McGlynn, 
who had suffered years of excommunication 
from the Catholic church for the cause for 
which Henry George had died, and yet who 
had steadily gone on preaching the great truth 
until in the end he was reinstated and justi- 
fied, with the ban lifted from his teachings. 
Henry George had called him "a Peter the 
Hermit," and "an army with banners." The 
clergymen preceding had spoken with earnest- 
ness, eloquence and power. To these qualities 
the priest added such moving passion of faith 
and hope that the great audience swayed with 
feeling. It cast off all funeral restraint and 
gave vent to emotion in applause. Nor did 
the applause cease when Dr. McGlynn had fin- 
ished and John S. Crosby, a brother-at-arms in 
the campaign, arose and extolled the civic vir- 
tues of the dead man. Seldom have men 
spoken as those men spoke; seldom has there 
been such inspiration; seldom has a funeral 

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gathering applauded with hope instead of melt- 
ing into the cries and lamentations of grief. 
Truly the soul of the dead was marching on. 

HENRY GEORGE, Jr. 




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The Choir sang "Lead, Kindly Light." 

The funeral service was read by the 
Rev. R. Heber Newton, D.D. 

The Choir chanted the Lord's Prayer. 

Dr. Newton offered prayer. 

The addresses followed. 



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ADDRESS OF THE REV. LYMAN 
ABBOTT, D.D. 

He who lies before us in death was hon- 
ored by all men. All over the world men and 
women are paying him the same tribute to- 
day that we do. This tribute comes from 
those who agreed with him in his economic 
opinions; from those who agreed only in part 
with him; and from those who disagreed with 
him entirely. All men, of all shades of opin- 
ion, have united in this testimonial; for in 
such an hour as this we all agree that the 
spirit in man is more important than any 
creed. 

We are gathered here this afternoon, not to 
eulogize Henry George — his life is his monu- 
ment. We are gathered here to express our 
affection and reverence for his estate, for one 
who carried through life the spirit of the 
Christ. If to give one's life for the enlighten- 

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ment of man, for his betterment, is to follow 
Christ, then this man was a follower of Christ. 
If to give one's self to the service of one's fel- 
low man is to follow Christ, then he truly fol- 
lowed Christ. The spirit which leads a man 
on unselfishly in the service of others is the 
spirit of Christ himself. 

What it is to follow Christ ought to be clear 
to the world by this time, yet it is not. He has 
made himself perfectly clear in his first re- 
ported sermon : 

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he 
hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the 
poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken 
hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, 
and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at 
liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the 
acceptable year of the Lord. 

If to give one's life to a proclamation of 
glad tidings to those who are poor, to the 
emancipation of those who are in bonds, to 
the enlightenment of those who are in dark- 
ness, and comfort and healing to those who 

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are broken hearted — if to do these things be 
to follow Christ's footsteps, then surely it 
would be hard to name a man who during the 
last twenty-five years has followed Christ 
more faithfully than he whose sudden death 
calls us here today. To this, Christ gave his 
life. It is said of him that he went about doing 
good. To go about doing good is to follow 
Christ. No ritual, nor creed, nor ceremony, 
nor church-going, but service is following 
Christ. Not to attend a church or synagogue, 
not to subscribe to a creed, not to belong to 
an industrial or so-called social association, 
not to belong to any of these things — but to 
live as he lived, to love as he loved, to serve as 
he served. And if this is true, if to follow 
Christ is to give one's self to the service of 
humanity, then there are some in the church 
of Christ that do not follow him, and some 
outside that do. If this be to follow Christ, 
then there are many who live with eyes some- 
times so blinded by their tears that they see 
him dimly or not at all, who yet follow him. 

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Men ask, How do you account for the decay 
of religion? I reply that there is no decay of 
religion, that religion has never been so vital 
and so widely diffused as it is today. We do 
not care so much about ritual and church or- 
ganizations, and theological definitions and 
creeds; and perhaps we do not care enough 
for them, but we do care about our fellow- 
men more and more as the years go by. If 
Christianity is service, unselfish service, then 
this age is more Christian than all preceding 
ages. If it be true that he is greatest who is 
servant of all, then is this the more Christianly 
great of all ages. In art, science, literature, 
journalism, education, the few wise, culti- 
vated, masterful are ministering to the many. 
It is only in commerce and industry that the 
many are ministering to the few. That com- 
merce and industry might be made Christian, 
as science, art, literature, government and edu- 
cation have been m.ade Christian, Henry 
George devoted his life. Whether we think 

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his method was the best or not, we must honor 
the life so devoted, so consecrated. 

It is because I believe that Henry George 
was a true and noble follower of Christ that I, 
a follower of Christ also, am glad to be here 
to speak these simple words. He followed 
Christ in the spirit with which he pursued his 
aim in life. Industrial injustice he did not look 
upon as an irremediable wrong. He did not 
study economic questions in the quietude of a 
library; he plunged himself into life. He iden- 
tified himself with those whose wrongs he 
suffered as though they were his own. He 
interpreted those wrongs through his own 
strong feelings. He loved truth, but he loved 
truth most because truth served mankind. He 
loved his fellow-men, and loved to identify 
himself with his fellow-men. He served his 
fellow-men with a consecration worthy of 
more than our praise ; worthy of our imitation. 

With his brilliant talents, with his mastery 
of the English language, with his knowledge of 
economic principles, with his rare power of 

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expression, with his genius for arousing en- 
thusiasm, Henry George might have attained 
almost any position he chose in political life, 
or in journalism, or in social life, had he been 
willing to yield one iota of his convictions, or 
even to make such compromises as most of 
us deem it quite proper to make. But he 
was inflexible when he believed he was right. 
He never considered the effect upon himself 
of anything he said or did. I have stood be- 
side him on the same platform, and have heard 
him utter truths that seemed to me at times 
to be needlessly unwelcome to those to whom 
they were addressed, and have read in his 
works the same obnoxious utterances as 
plainly made. It would be difficult to find a 
public teacher in America who considered less 
the immediate effect of his utterances, or the 
effect immediate or ultimate on himself, than 
did Henry George. 

When the campaign came on friends ad- 
monished him. No soldier ever entered battle 
with a clearer consciousness of personal dan- 

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ger. But he was brave, and he died in attesta- 
tion of his faith, in the support of his prin- 
ciples, and in the cause of the people he de- 
sired to serve. 

I believe that the secret of Henry George's 
unflinching courage, his undaunted faith in 
man and his constant hope of victory, was in 
his faith in God. I do not mean his theological 
belief in God, but his personal faith in and 
fellowship with the living God, a good God, 
a God who is a father to His children. 

If faith in God, faith in man, and the life 
inspired by that faith is Christlike, then Henry 
George's was a Christlike life. It was such 
a life, it seems to me, as should convince of the 
immortality of the human soul even those who 
profess to be unbelievers. Even they cannot 
believe that such a life as this has ceased to be. 




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ADDRESS OF RABBI GUSTAV GOTT- 

HEIL. 

Before the civic contest is decided in which 
this brave man staked his life, death has cast 
his irrevocable vote in favor of him, and 
crowned him victor in the race for a crown 
that outshines and will outlast the transient 
triumphs of the coming battle. 

Friend and foe stand side by side in rev- 
erent awe by his lifeless frame. In sealing his 
lips forever, death opened those of myriads 
to speak his praise and manifest their grati- 
tude to the man whose thoughts were ever for 
liberty, justice and humanity. 

He advocated a social order in which every 
toiler should be sure of his due reward, and 
poverty and degradation should be unknown. 
A wail of grief is heard from all parts of the 
country, and once more the ancient Hebrew 

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maxim is confirmed: "The truly wise are 
greater in their death than in their lives." 

There were three elements in the nature of 
Henry George that will fix the stability of his 
work for generations and generations to come : 

First, the absolute honesty of both his 
thoughts and his statements. He went in 
search of truth and accepted it as he found it 
— not fearing to run counter to established 
opinions held to be fundamental in social 
order. In the spirit of the old prophets he 
would declare the word of God as it was borne 
in unto him, and he would speak his message 
in clear and unmistakable language. Now, 
God has so armed all utterances that whatever 
error may be mingled with truth, it can never 
fail of its reward. Time, which tries all things, 
will separate the dross from the gold, but the 
weight of an upright word in season, uttered 
uprightly, always makes for righteousness, 
and inspires other souls to rise and do like- 
wise. 

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And the second element of his teaching is, 
that it was gathered on the field of real life 
and existing conditions, and that its deepest 
roots lay in the brave man's own experience. 
It was not the result of abstract thinking. It 
did not aim at constructing a system. He faced 
the facts of life and grappled with the prob- 
lems they present, for the purpose of chang- 
ing them into better facts and more whole- 
some adjustments. 

Lastly, and this perhaps is the chief cause of 
the hold he gained on the affections of the 
people, he was impelled to his efforts by a 
deep sympathy with his fellow-men, whom he 
considered to be exposed to sufferings and pri- 
vations which are not beyond the power of 
good men to remedy. The people felt a gen- 
erous and brotherly sympathy in all his teach- 
ings; and it was simply heart answering heart 
that gained him thejr confidence and ranged 
vast crowds of followers under his banner. 

They say that his theories were dangerous 
because they seemed to create dissatisfaction 

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and consequent restlessness among the work- 
ing classes ; but that is altogether beside the 
question. The only true standard for any 
theory is furnished in the measure of real and 
lasting good which it will do to that particular 
class; and if a theory can stand that test, it 
can never fail of proving of great benefit to all 
classes ; it cannot fail to bring new strength to 
the whole social fabric. Great reformations 
have always been heralded by unrest. 

Measured by these standards, we may be 
confident that the life of this brave son of a 
free and generous nation will be chronicled in 
its annals in letters of gold. Nay, beyond the 
limits of his native land his name will be 
known and respected as one of the hosts of 
God's servants, who desire to glorify him in 
the eyes of men by establishing among them a 
reign of happiness, of justice and of universal 
peace. I pray for the peace, the strength and 
the comfort of his bereaved family, while his 
memory will be for blessing and thanksgiving 
that he has been, for generations to come. 

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ADDRESS OF THE REV. EDWARD 
McGLYNN, D.D. 

This place is not devoted to religion, but to 
industry and art. Today it is consecrated. 
We stand here in the presence of a messenger. 
It is the messenger of death. But he appals 
not the heart of man. We stand upon ground 
made sacred by one raised up by the Father 
in Heaven to send messages to men — mes- 
sages of truth, of righteousness, of justice, of 
peace, of fraternity. 

He died in a struggle — ^not for the chair of 
the mayoralty of New York ! Oh, no ! for that 
was altogether too small for him. He died in 
a struggle upon which he had gladly, enthus- 
iastically entered, to deal blows, and willing 
to take blows for the rights of man; for the 
teaching of universal truths; for the making 
of better men; to fight for a cause which 
would make the magnificent truths of the 
Declaration of Independence something more 
than glittering generalities. 

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The chair of the president of the United 
States were all too small for such a man ! He 
was not merely a philosopher and a sage; he 
was a seer, a forerunner, a prophet; a teacher 
sent from God. And we can say of him, as 
the Scriptures say: "There was a man sent 
of God whose name was John." And I be- 
lieve that I mock not those sacred Scriptures 
when I say: "There was a man sent of God 

whose name was Henry George." 

[The tension on the audience which had 
been gradually increasing as the reverend 
orator delivered his impressive periods, 
now gave way. Some moments before, 
when Dr. McGlynn was first seen to enter 
the hall, there had been a slight demon- 
stration, instantly suppressed by a mur- 
mured "H-u-s-h" from those who thought 
of the presence of the dead. But now, to 
those of his followers who believed in 
him as seer and prophet, Henry George 
was not dead but living. They forgot the 
slain; they remembered only the glory 
of the fight. When the tumultuous hand- 
clapping had ceased. Dr. McGlynn con- 
tinued.] 

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We know the noble, the eloquent man who 
lies here before us. We have heard the utter- 
ances of the great and good men who have 
preceded me. We have heard with peculiar 
delight, I am sure, from the venerable Dr. 
Abbott, of the Christlike character of the man. 
It brings to my mind a momentous occasion 
eleven years ago when there were assembled 
in another hall in this city a great body of men 
— men of all professions, lawyers, doctors, ar- 
tisans, laboring men — to ratify the nomination 
made by the Central Labor Union of this same 
man for the mayoralty of New York. I said 
then, and I have never regretted it, and I have 
heard with a peculiar gladness from the lips 
of Dr. Abbott that he was, as I then said, a 
man of a Christlike heart. 

It was a peculiar providence of God which 
took this lad Henry George — a lad with so 
little schooling, this printer*s boy at the case, 
this sailor before the mast, this tramp printer 
looking for occupation to maintain his wife — 
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he became, the messenger of a great truth. 
The magnificent brain in that dome-like head 
puzzled over economic truths, while his 
heart was torn with grief at the sight of the 
poverty, the misery, the crime he met with on 
every side. He asked the questions: "Oh, 
Lord, how long?" "Why does the victory al- 
ways seem to go to the strong?" "Why are 
the strong permitted to rob and exterminate 
the masses?" "Is this God's kingdom on 
earth?" 

Yes. That wondrous brain was filled with 
an idea. It was battling with these questions 
while his tender heart was made sore because 
of the inadequate answers he was receiving 
from the petty text-books of political economy, 
books whose authors confessed their ig- 
norance, and caused political economy to be 
called the dismal and dreary science. 

Surely it was a divine providence which 
raised up such a m.an, so that dying as he has 
died the whole world is shocked. In all civ- 
ilized lands, in many half-civilized lands, 

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wherever the name of Henry George has gone, 
the world's heart has ceased to beat for the 
moment. His works have been read by mil- 
lions of people. In every language and in 
every clime Henry George speaks to all hu- 
manity today. 

Why is this vast gathering assembled here 
today, and a vastly greater crowd are outside 
seeking admission? Why is it that vast multi- 
tudes have come from early morn, from almost 
before the rising of the sun, to gaze mourn- 
fully and lovingly on his face, and to again 
contemplate the noble character of the man? 
It is because there was a man sent from God, 
and his name was Henry George. [Applause.] 

Indeed it were a pity that such a man should 
be elected mayor of New York! It was well 
that he was spared the ignoble strife and the 
dull care of a mere administrative office. It 
would indeed be a pity that he should have 
been compelled to bear the petty crosses, the 
unending strife, the unceasing troubles of such 
a position. I repeat, no administrative office 

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was worthy of the spirit of this seer, of this 
poet, of this prophet, of this messenger from 
God. [Applause.] He died just when he 
should have died, just as he ought to have 
died. 

It is a great thing to be a preacher, to hold 
the hearts and minds of men. If we follow 
with our hearts what he has said, it will bring 
us to the fatherhood of God and the brother- 
hood of man. It is a greater and better thing 
to be an apostle. It is still greater to add to 
the character of an apostle that of a crusader. 
But it is the greatest and best thing in the 
preacher, the apostle or the crusader, to have 
died for his faith. At first, when an apostle 
preached Christ's faith, men were disposed to 
regard him as unpractical, as a visionary, as 
asking too much of men; and it was only by 
dying for their faith that the faith of the cru- 
saders of old began to live. Henry George by 
dying for his faith has become a martyr. 
[Great applause.] 

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He had the lion's heart, the heart of a hero. 
But like all great or lion-hearted men there 
was added to him much of the woman. He 
had the patience, the forgiveness of the sweet- 
est, gentlest and best woman. It was that 
loving heart of his that grieved over the sin 
and misery that he saw. How could it all be 
under the guidance of a loving Father? But 
when he had solved the riddle, as no other 
man had been able to solve it, and discovered 
the truth, the cause of all that misery and sin, 
then he was at peace. In the concluding chap- 
ter of that immortal work of his he makes a 
confession and a profession, and says that the 
faith that was dead within him had revived. 
"Yes," he says, "God is the best of fathers. 
He has provided well for his children; he 
has provided lavishly for them; he has filled 
the world with his bounties; he has spread 
a bountiful feast for all; he has loaded his 
table so well that there is enough for all 
around it. It is not the niggardliness of na- 
ture, but the criminality and stupidity of man 

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that makes the apparent scarcity." [Tremen- 
dous applause.] 

That immortal work was enough, and it is 
impossible for a man with a heart that has 
not been hardened, to read it without arising 
from its perusal better and purer, or else be- 
coming a worse man through hardening his 
heart to the truths contained therein. [Ap- 
plause.] That book is the work of a sage, of 
a seer, of a philosopher, of a poet. It is not 
merely political philosophy. It is a poem; it 
is a prophecy ; it is a prayer. 

This man, so peculiarly sent of God, not 
only to this country and this generation, but 
to all countries and all generations yet to 
come, should he occupy the commonplace 
office of mayor of New York, or president of 
the United States? 

We hope and pray for that reign of peace 
foretold by the prophets, the kingdom of 
heaven. That surely must be preceded by the 
kingdom of God on earth. In that day all 
will honor the patriotism of this man, and the 

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name of Henry George will be revered. [Great 
applause.] Then there will be a parliament 
of men. There shall be heard this world-wide 
English speech of ours. There will be praise 
for those who brought about the reign of 
brotherhood, the reign of peace. And there, 
when the names of the mayors of New York 
and the presidents of the United States will be 
but little more than catalogues of names, or 
called to memory only by an allusion in his- 
tory, in a niche in one of the walls of the hall 
of that parliament of nations, there shall be 
found honored, loved and revered the name of 
Henry George. [Tremendous applause,] 




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Now followed a scene that will never be 
forgotten by those who witnessed it. The 
ceremonies were over, — at least so the 
audience thought. The impressive tones 
of McGlynn's voice and the applause that 
followed his speech were dying away. 
It was a fitting climax, so it seemed, that 
the last words over the great leader 
dead, should be said by one who stood 
so close to him in life as the eloquent 
priest of St. Stephen's. Some on the outer 
seats rose to go, when a man who was a 
stranger to most of the assembly stepped 
to the front of the platform. Who could 
this be that dared to follow Mc Glynn? 
Surely he did not realize the task he had 
undertaken. Yet the fine presence of the 
man, the resonant tones of his voice im- 
mediately commanded attention. The 
speaker was John Sherwin Crosby, who 
had been selected by the committee, with 
excellent judgment as it proved, to close 

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the ceremonies. Those who had risen, 
turned around, — listened, — sat down. In 
a moment the applause was renewed, 
wilder, more enthusiastically than before. 
Not cheering, as some of the papers had 
it, — those who longed to cheer were re- 
strained by the presence of the dead, — 
but tumultuous hand-clapping. The un- 
known orator had captured his audience 
as no other had that day, and they re- 
sponded to his eloquent words as the 
tree-tops sway to the gale. It was no 
longer of Henry George the man, that 
the orator spoke, but of Henry George 
the fallen leader in a great cause — a cause 
dear to his hearers* hearts; and the ap- 
plause that went up was as the shout of a 
host rushing to the battle. It was exult- 
ant, defiant; the orator before them 
breathed their spirit, spoke with their 
voice, and they went wild with enthusi- 
asm. 



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ADDRESS OF JOHN SHERWIN CROSBY. 

I should not, my friends, even if there were 
time, here attempt any eulogy of the dear 
friend whose loss we mourn. I have not the 
command of language or of feeling requisite 
to an adequate expression of any part of the 
measureless praise that is due and will be 
accorded to this brave tribune of the people. 
Standing here in his presence, as it seems to 
me, I feel that if those mute lips could break 
the silence that enchains them we should hear 
him say: "Speak not of me, but of the prin- 
ciples I have advocated. I have laid down my 
life in the struggle to secure their practical 
recognition in the politics of my country. I 
call on you who remain upon the scene of 
action to continue that struggle; to keep up 
the fight until victory is won " [The audience 
burst into applause.] 

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Here on this sad Sabbath day, the day that 
was made for man, at the open-standing 
portals through which our beloved leader has 
passed from time to the eternity that awaits 
us all, let us ask, and answer if we can, this 
question: Why is it that at the death of this 
plain, unassuming man, who, although known 
throughout the world, never held station of 
worldly honor; whose writings have seldom 
appeared in dress more pretentious than a 
cheap paper cover, having been slighted and 
discredited by concerted action of those whose 
office it is to make known whatever truth may 
be discovered; why is it that thousands of 
men and women are today assembled, not 
only here at his funeral by the Atlantic, but 
on the other side of the continent by the Pa- 
cific, at this same hour, in that very hall in 
San Francisco where he first gave public ut- 
terance to his sublime theories? [Applause.] 
Why is it that not only in this country but 
throughout all lands there is this unprece- 
dented manifestation of a universal, common 

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sorrow at his loss? Is it because he was a 
good man? He was a good man. No whiter 
soul ever winged its way to regions of celes- 
tial peace. But other good men have died, are 
dying every day, and yet we see no such 
demonstration as this. An able man? Men 
of the greatest ability are constantly passing 
away, but they are paid no such tribute as 
that accorded to this man. Why, then, this 
world-wide mourning? 

This man had a theory — was said to be a 
man of one idea. If that theory be false, that 
idea a mere vagary, why, as he passes away, 
does the world rise and stand uncovered in 
honor of the man who proclaimed it? It is 
the natural, universally spontaneous recogni- 
tion of Henry George's theory as an essential 
part of God's eternal truth. [Tremendous ap- 
plause.] 

One word about this theory of his. Much 
has been truly and eloquently said in regard 
to the probable effects of its adoption. He 
believed that when put into practice it would, 

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by removing the cause, eventually result in 
the abolition of involuntary poverty. There 
are those who say that he was over sanguine 
as to results, which they assert could not be 
so beneficent and far-reaching as he thought. 
But it matters not, my friends, what the result 
would be. That is not your business or mine. 
Shall we stop to discuss results before doing 
what we know to be right? If so, how long? 
Henry George has demonstrated beyond all 
question that what he demands, that all he 
asks, is simple justice. [Great applause.] 

It has been said that he threatened estab- 
lished institutions. Threatened? He has not 
only threatened them; he has shaken them to 
their foundations. [Prolonged applause.] 
Threatened your institutions, has he? To 
whom have you built statues in your cities but 
to men who threatened your institutions ? Your 
Garrisons and Phillipses, your Lincolns, Sum- 
ners and Sewards, all threatened institutions 
defended in their time by pulpit and press, as 
you know. Yes, Henry George has threat- 

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ened established institutions, and they are now 
tottering to their fall, because not founded 
on the eternal rock of justice, but built upon 
the shifting sands of expediency. 

Henry George believed in the Declaration of 
Independence; accepted the self-evident truth 
of its sublime preamble that every man has, 
by the very nature of his being, certain in- 
alienable rights; rights derived not from gov- 
ernments; rights, of his absolute, indefeasible 
title to which no government or established 
order can deprive him; rights, chief among 
which is the right to a place on earth. [Great 
applause.] He saw that one man has as much 
and the same right on earth as another, and 
that if one man has as much right as another, 
no man can have any more right than another. 
[Applause.] 

This man was no dreamer. He had no plan 
for remodeling the state or reconstructing so- 
ciety. Plato in his "Republic," More in "Uto- 
pia," Bacon and Bellamy have given us vi- 
sions of society arbitrarily moulded accord- 

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ing to man's finite conception of what it ought 
to be. They proposed to deal with results 
rather than causes — giving little thought as 
to the feasibility or justice of means by which 
their dreams were to be realized. Henry 
George, on the other hand, in his great book 
"Progress and Poverty," beginning with fun- 
damental principles, absolute truth, with 
axioms, as in mathematics, proceeds by logical 
deductions to inevitable conclusions. And no 
man yet has ever answered him. [Great ap- 
plause. A voice: "And no man ever will."] 
Exalted as he was in sublimity of political 
wisdom, he held himself not aloof from the 
uncongenial associations incident to practical 
politics, and shirked no humblest duty of the 
citizen. To the very last hour he was ear- 
nestly endeavoring to arouse all men, men of 
every class and station, the men of this great 
metropolis and of the world, to a sense of 
personal responsibility for the continuance of 
institutional wrongs; urging them to demand 
at every point that justice be done by the gov- 

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ernment we are all compelled to uphold. 
[Great applause.] 

There lie the remains of a man who was 
Thomas Jefferson reincarnate. [Sensation.] 
Greater even than Jefferson, for, although the 
latter saw the injustice and denied the right 
of so-called private property in land, not to 
him but to this man was it given to demon- 
strate to the world how the natural, common, 
equal, inalienable right of all men to the earth 
may be secured to all without injury to any, 
and without disturbance to society. He 
demonstrated, moreover, that unless that right 
be secured it is in vain that we pray "Thy 
kingdom come." [Great applause:] When 
we pray for the coming of God's kingdom, and 
the doing of His will upon earth, do we ex- 
pect the answer to come all at once? Through 
some change in the climate or the order of the 
seasons? By any standing still of the sun? It 
must come, if at all, through some change in 
the institutions, customs and laws that we ig- 
norantly maintain in opposition to the will of 

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God. By whom is that will to be done on 
earth if not by the men and women living upon 
it? Emerson has said that every great re- 
form was once a thought in the mind of some 
one man. What was once but a thought in 
the mind of this one man has become a force 
that moves the world today. [Vociferous ap- 
plause.] 

As Paul stood on Mars Hill and proclaimed 
to the Athenians the Unknown God whom 
they ignorantly worshipped, so this man for 
the last quarter of a century has stood aloft 
proclaiming democracy to democrats^ I speak 
not of any party, but of all men who, with 
Jefferson and Lincoln, still ask: "If we can- 
not trust the people to govern themselves, 
whom can we trust to govern them?" Speak- 
ing to such men, Henry George has been say- 
ing: "Jeffersonian democracy which you ig- 
norantly worship, that I declare unto you." 
The political party, be it called Democratic or 
Republican, or by any other name, that does 
not recognize the equal right of every man to 

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a place on earth — the government that fails to 
secure that right — must eventually go down, 
as parties, governments and civilizations have 
gone down in the past. [Tremendous ap- 
plause.] But I will not detain you. [Cries of 
"Go on," "Go on," and applause.] 

If I thought that things were to go on as 
they are — and as some in high places, tell us 
that they must, in the order of Providence, 
continue to go on — my prayer would be for 
God to stop the multiplication of a race, the 
majority of whom are to know only poverty, 
degradation and shame. That is what we 
should pray for if we believe the existing so- 
cial disorder to be the natural order. But if 
we have faith in God, and believe that when- 
ever He makes a thing right He also makes it 
practicable, then may we pray, hope and work, 
as did Henry George, for the coming of the 
kingdom. [Great applause.] 

Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation 
was not more essential to an understanding of 
physical phenomena than is the theory of 

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Henry George to an intelligent comprehension 
of the principles of political economy and civil 
government. The single tax, or "natural tax- 
ation," is in reality not a tax, not a taking of 
private revenue, but simply an appropriation 
by the public of a revenue which, in its very 
source and nature, is essentially public, and 
therefore belongs to the public. Long ago in 
the book of Ecclesiastes was it written ; "The 
profit of the earth is for all"; long ago in the 
book of Proverbs : "In all labor there is profit" ; 
and the problem of all the centuries since has 
been how to effect a just distribution of these 
two kinds of profit. It was the mission of 
Henry George to solve that problem — the prob- 
lem of poverty, the labor problem, the problem 
that underlies all other social problems. And 
he has solved it. He has pointed out the way, 
the only way, in which the profit of the earth 
may be shared by all, the only way in which 
the profit of labor can be secured to the la- 
borer. His work finished, his mission ended, 

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he hears the welcome summons: "Well done, 
good and faithful servant." 

The body of Henry George lies here. His 
soul has gone to the bosom of his Father. And 
soon his body, by gentle hands uplifted and 
followed by loving hearts, will be borne to 
peaceful Greenwood, there to rest upon the 
bosom of his mother Earth, her child, the one 
who above all others of his time realized and 
recognized the common, equal brotherhood of 
all her children. [Prolonged applause.] 




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Immediately after the funeral the Rev. 
Dr. R. Heber Newton said to a friend: 
"At first I was shocked by the applause; 
but as I reflected, it seemed to me im- 
possible that the audience should not ap- 
plaud. This was not a funeral; it was a 
resurrection." 




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